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Grammar (the 1st year, the 2nd term)

Part I. Tenses.

1. How is the Present Progressive formed? Give examples of affirmative, negative and interrogative forms.

2. What are the basic meanings of the Present Progressive?

3. When is it possible to use stative verbs in the Present and Past Progressive? Give examples.

4. What adverbial modifiers of time are used with the Present Progressive?

5. What tenses are used to express actions characterizing the person denoted by the subject, bringing out the person’s typical traits? Give examples.

6. Give examples of using the Present Progressive to express future actions.

7. How is the Past Progressive formed? Give examples of affirmative, negative and interrogative forms.

8. When is the Past Progressive used? Give examples.

9. What adverbial modifiers of time are used with the Present Progressive?

10. How is the Future Progressive formed? Give examples of affirmative, negative and interrogative forms.

11. When is the Future Progressive used? Give examples.

12. What adverbial modifiers of time are used with the Future Progressive?

13. What other ways of expressing future (except future tenses) do you know? Give examples.

14. In what cases do we use the construction “to be going to”? Give examples.

15. How is the Present Perfect formed? Give examples of the affirmative, negative and interrogative forms.

16. When is the Present Perfect used (in general)? What types of the Present Perfect do you know?

17. When is the Present Perfect Exclusive used? Give examples.

18. What adverbial modifies of time are used with the Present Perfect Exclusive?

19. What tenses can be used in questions beginning with “When” (referring to the past? In answers to such questions?

20. When is the Present Perfect Inclusive used? Give the adverbial modifiers of time normally used with this tense. Give examples.

21. State the difference between the Present Perfect and the Past Simple. Give examples.

22. How is the Past Perfect formed? Give examples of the affirmative, negative and interrogative forms.

23. When is the Past Perfect used? Enumerate the cases (3). Give examples.

24. How is the Future Perfect formed? Give examples of the affirmative, negative and interrogative forms.

25. When is the Future Perfect used? Give examples.

26. How is the Present Perfect Progressive formed? Give examples of the affirmative, negative and interrogative forms.

27. When is the Present Perfect Progressive used? What 2 types of the Present Perfect Progressive do you know? Give examples.

28. When is the Present Perfect Progressive Exclusive used? Enumerate the adverbial modifiers of time normally used with this tense. Give examples.

29. When is the Past Perfect Progressive Inclusive used? Give the adverbial modifiers of time normally used with this tense. Give examples.

30. How is the Past Perfect Progressive formed? Give examples of the affirmative, negative and interrogative forms.

31. When is the Past Perfect Progressive used? Give examples.

32. State the difference between the Past Progressive and the Past Perfect Progressive. Give examples.

33. How is the Future Perfect Progressive formed? Give examples of the affirmative, negative and interrogative forms.

34. When is the Future Perfect Progressive used? Give examples.

35. State the difference between the Present Perfect and the Present Perfect Progressive. Give examples.

36. State the difference between Progressive and perfect Progressive Tenses. Give examples.

Part II   The Sequence of Tenses

1. What is the Sequence of Tenses? When is it observed? Give examples.
2. What subordinate clauses require the use of the rule of the Sequence of tenses? Give examples.
3. What subordinate clauses do not require the use of the rule of the Sequence of tenses? Give examples.
4. When is the observance of the rule of the Sequence of Tenses compulsory? When is it optional? Give examples.
5. What tenses can be used in the subordinate object clause if its action is simultaneous with that of the principal clause? Give examples.
6. What tenses can be used in the subordinate object clause if its action is prior to that of the principal clause? Give examples.
7. What tenses can be used in the subordinate clause if its action lasted a certain time before the action expressed in the principal clause.
8. What tenses can be used in the subordinate object clause if its action is posterior to that of the principal clause? Give examples.
9. When isn’t the rule of the Sequence of Tenses observed? Enumerate the cases (6).
10. How modal verbs are changed in the subordinate clauses according to the rule of the Sequence of tenses?
11. How tenses are changed according to the rule of the Sequence of tenses? Give examples.(p.91 Drozd)
12. What time and place changes take place according to the rule of the Sequence of tenses? Give examples.(p.92 Drozd)
13. How are indirect statements expressed? What verbs are they introduced by?
14. How are indirect orders and requests expressed? What verbs are they introduced by?
15. How are indirect general questions expressed? What verbs and conjunctions are they introduced by?
16. How are indirect special questions expressed? What verbs and conjunctions are they introduced by?
17. How are indirect offers and suggestions expressed? What verbs are they introduced by? What is the difference between these verbs?

Part III    The Passive Voice (Ist.pp.58-61)

1. What is voice? How many voices are there in English? What are they?

2. When is the Passive Voice used?

3. How is the Passive Voice formed?

4. What tenses do not have passive forms?

5. Comment on the use of the Passive Voice with the verbs which can take 2 objects. Give examples.

6. What is the Prepositional Passive? Give examples.

7. What transitive verbs are not used in the Passive Voice?

8. What verbs are used in the Active Voice though their meanings are passive?

9. What are the ways of rendering the Passive Voice into Russian?

10. How can we differentiate between the verb “to be”+ Participle II as a simple predicate and as a compound nominal predicate?

Part IV    Adjectives (Ist. pp. 31-34)

1. What is an adjective? Give a definition.

2. What groups do adjectives fall into according to their meanings?

3. What groups are adjectives divided into according to their morphological structure?

4. What is the order of adjectives coming before a noun?

5. What are the functions of adjectives in a sentence?

6. What degrees of comparison can adjectives have?

7. What are the ways of forming degrees of comparison? Give examples.

8. What adjectives have irregular degrees of comparison?

9. What adjectives have double degrees of comparison?

10. What are the ways of comparing one thing or person to other members of the group? Give examples.

11. What adjectives cannot have degrees of comparison? How can we show the difference in degrees of such adjectives? Give examples.

12. What adjectives ending in –ly do you know? Give examples of word combinations with these adjectives (6).

 Sentence structure:

Sentence structure (Elementary)

Sentence structure (Intermediate)

Simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences

Questions:

Tag Questions (Disjunctive)

NOUNS (plural and singular forms):

Countable & Uncountable Nouns

How to spell plural nouns

Possessives

Possessive case - How to use apostrophes in English

ARTICLES

A/An - Indefinite Article (City Grammar)

A/An - Indefinite Article (EngVid with Jade)

A/An and The (EngVid with James)